What does bubbling mean?

[going2breakdown]

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I have a question here concerning "bubbling". What does it mean when you bubble something in a reaction? I'm guessing that it just means running the gas through a liquid, kind of like blowing air through a straw into the liquid, except in chemistry, that gas may react with the liquid. Is this correct?

 

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[AureatEagle]

I have a question here concerning "bubbling". What does it mean when you bubble something in a reaction? I'm guessing that it just means running the gas through a liquid, kind of like blowing air through a straw into the liquid, except in chemistry, that gas may react with the liquid. Is this correct?

That is correct 🙂

 

[yoyohomieg5432]

That is correct 🙂

does bubbling have any advantage over just reacting liquid versions of each?

 

[AureatEagle]

does bubbling have any advantage over just reacting liquid versions of each?

Not that I know of off the top of my head. It's just that sometimes you need to perform reactions involving reactants that are naturally gaseous at all reasonable temperatures. Easiest example I can think of would be any reaction involving CO2 as a reactant (think C1 extension/carbonation/carboxylation). You can simply bubble it through the solution (or drop in a bunch of dry ice and watch the bubbles appear from sublimation).

 

[going2breakdown]

Thank you 🙂